A short informal YouTube conversation (uploaded by Chris Larsen) between Craig and another speaker about personal discipline and goal-setting. They contrast chasing others' standards with creating personally meaningful standards, and offer a pithy definition: "discipline" as putting maximum effort toward your most important problem.
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My wife says I have no discipline because I. I quote, unquote, can't bring ice cream in the house. I said, but I don't buy the ice cream in the first place.
Exactly. The ultimate definition, discipline, is putting a level 10 out of 10 effort into your big level 10 out of 10 problem. For the longest time, like, I respected Craig so much. I've looked up to him as a mentor, obviously, business partner over the years, is that I would often find myself chasing his goals or modeling certain standards or habits of his. And which is great because they were all, like, quality things. I'll even like. You know, Craig stopped swearing many years ago, and he was very public about it because he wanted that accountability, which helped him stop swearing. But I'm like, yeah, like, I look up the correct. I'm gonna stop swearing as well. And I tried it for a couple weeks, and I kept failing at it. I'm like.
And you said, f that.
Right? Exactly. I'm like, it's not my goal. Like, I don't curse that much, but I don't have this strong why to stop cursing. So it's like I was chasing somebody else's definition of success or definition of discipline. It's like, for what you do, create these systems when you want to create these standards, like, they have to be meaningful to you.
